Tag meta key

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Hello there,

I am looking for the meta key for event tags. Where would I find this?

I couldn’t see it amongst these: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-post-meta-data/

Cheers,

Spencer

[George]

Hey Spencer,

I’m not quite sure what you mean by the meta key for tags – one thing to point out is that taxonomy relationships are not built within the post meta for a given item.

Can you clarify exactly what you mean here? If you’re just trying to get the given number of tags for an event, I’d recommend looking into using any of the default WordPress functions that let you get tags of a specific item – for example, wp_get_post_tags(): https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_post_tags

You can use a function like this because the “Tags” for events are just normal post_tags within WordPress.

Let us know if this helps!
George

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[George]

Hey Spencer,

Thanks for the update – however, I unfortunately am still not quite sure what you mean. If you need to use something on the same meta level as _EventStartDate, then the only other default Events-related meta keys are in the knowledgebase article you linked to above → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-post-meta-data/

To retrieve the tags attached to an event, this is not something that is revealed within the post meta. It’s a separate kind of relationship altogether, within WordPress. There is post meta, which has the meta keys and meta values relationship tied to a specific post, and then are post taxonomies, which are entirely separate from this. To get the tags of a post/event, you’d need to use a function like the one I linked to in my reply above.

Does the information here help? If not, please describe why in detail and we’ll try our best to give a better response! 🙂

Thanks,
George

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